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THE AIR'S TRAGIC MR PAGE RECOVERING

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ACCIDENTS IN U.S.A.

LARGE INCREASE COMPARED WITH LAST YEAR

153 LIVES LOST

Washington, Yesterday.

FROM WOUNDS

NEW BUILDING COLLAPSES

YUNNANFU ASSAULT “INFERIOR CEMENT"

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{LOYAL "BOY" ALSO IMPROVING

From Our Own Correspondent.] The report of the department of

Yunnanfu, Sept. 23. Commerce shows that 390 aero- Mr. H. C. Page, branch manager plates crashed in the United States of the Standard Oil Co. of New during the first six months of 1928, York, who was grievously injured with a loss 153 lives, representing by a murderous attack by's former an increase of 190 accidents com-

Chinese cook at 6 am. on Aug. 20 pared with the whole of 1927, in Yunnanfu, is making Batisfac- Reuter's American Service.

tory progress.

MOTOR FATALITY

COLLISION AT A DANGEROUS PART OF QUEEN'S ROAD

JURY'S FINDING

Mr. Page's house "boy," who was also attacked, is doing well.

Unfortunately, Mr. Page nearly lost the use of his right hand be. cause, on subsequent examination. it was found that several of the muscles were acvered. These are now Joining up.

[Note: The assailant, Chang- Mr. H. A. de Barros Botelho was Fu-wen, about 55 years of age, had yesterday afternoon exonerated, been employed for about 12 years. by Major C. Willson, O.B.E., and He entered the Page residence, cut Coroner's jury following a verdict the "boy's" throat, struck at Mr. of "Accidental Death," at an in- Page with a butcher's cleaver and quiry held into the death of an then, when tackled by Mr. Page, B-year-old. Chinese girl, who died at made ajunge with a knife which the Government Civil Hospital some alashed. Mr. Pige's arm. Mrs. hours after an accident in Queen's Page was awakened by the noise road East. Mr. Botelho was the and told by her husband to summon driver of the cycle, and the accident aid.] occurred on September 25' last.

According to Dr. G. H. Thomas of the Government Civil Hospital, the giri was admitted at 3.05 p.m., on September 25 with injuries over her left eyebrow from which grey She was matter, was protruding. unconscious and died at 9.20 p.m., the same day. A post mortem examination was subsequently held, and it was found that the girl's skull was fractured over the left eyebrow and the brain was lacorated. The stomach was also ruptured.

FINE WEATHER

60 OUT OF 87 MEN BURIED IN DEBRIS

16 BODIES RECOVERED

Prague, Yesterday.

Sixty out 87 men working within a 6-storey building, In course of construction in the centre of the town, were buried in its debris when the whole collapsed without; warning.

Sixteen of the bodles have, so far, been extricated.

The building was of reinforced concrete.

The builders attribute the collapse to inferior cement, which did not set at the guaranteed time.-Reuter.

HORAN'S ARREST

WHY HEARST HURRIED TO WASHINGTON

AN INTERVIEW

Paris, Yesterday,

It appears that Mr. Harold Horan, head of "The Universal News Ser- vice" (a Hearst Agency), who was arrested at the door of his office. here and taken to Police Headquar tera in connection with the Anglo- French naval compromise document published by the "New York Ameri-, can." a Hearst newspaper, was sum- the Qual D'Orsay last week, after which Hearst hurried to Washington and sought: Mr. Kellogg's assistance. He declared that he assumed full, responsibility for the incident and asked for the intervention of the American Am- bassador in Paris,

N.E. winds, moderate, fine, is moned to the forecast until. noon to- morrow,

The anti-cyclone has spread northward 'and eastward. It is now central over the lower Yang- tze Valley.

TWO GENERALS

Mr. Botelho, who said that he CAPTURED FROM NORTHERN

was an articled clerk to Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, solicitor, stated that on September 25 he was riding

ARMY

Later Horan was again summoned to the Foreign Office and, gathered the impression that the matter might be arranged, but a posse, of police yesterday held up his car and conveyed him to the police station During the recent fighting at for a long interrogation.

Peking, Yesterday.

Mr. Hearst's Prediction

New York.

his cycle along Queen's Road East Tangshan, General Pei Chung-hsi He was given the alternative of In a westerly direction and WDS travelling at about fifteen miles per tured Generala Hau Kun and Wang in prison to stand trial. He decided (the Nationalist Commander) cap- leaving France or being locked up hour." When Dear the Grand Theatre, a Chinese girl ran out Tung of the Northern Army. It is upon the former course.

reported from a reliable source that from the left side of the road. the Nationalist Government has Witness at once de-clutched and ap- ordered these two prisoners' south i Mr. Hearst, in an interview, sald plied the brakes, at the same time where they will be tried for com- he did not see why the French Goy- sounding the horn. The little girl turned round to look at witness and plicity in the assassination of Gen- ernment should make auch & fuas eral Chen Chi-mai (one of the re- unless the agreement contained then, instead of continuing on her volutionary leaders) in Shanghai something of which it was ashamed. way acrosA. the road, she turned round and ran back towards the side ten years ago. Chen Chi-mal was He added "If French machinations walk from which she had issued.tutuh' of the Shanghai area after and secret diplomacy involve the

the first revolution.-Reuter.

world in another great war, as they Bucket Entangled

are likely to do, she need not again count on the United States to rescue her from disaster."

.

War Compensation The girl got clear of the cycle,

Nanking, Yesterday. but a bucket which she was carrying In accordance with a resolution at the end of a pole, across her introduced by Marshal Chiang Kai- "Unfriendly and Unseemly shoulder got involved with the shek at the Central Executive Com-

Later. cycle's headlight. The cycle fell, mittes of the Nationalist Party, it

French diplomatic circles. "em-) throwing Mr. Botelho, and the girl, has been decided to appropriate phasise that Horan is not accused Mr. Botelho next saw the girl get $6,000,000 for the compensation of of stealing the document from the ting up and running into the ver- war dead and wounded.-Reuter. archives of the Foreign Office but andah, where a Chinese woman held

her up. Witness saked the girl to go

to the police station, but the woman

ELOPEMENT SEQUEL

suggested that there was no need to FATHER RELENTS AND FINDS

do that, if the cyclist, was willing |

to pay some compensation.

It took two district watchmen and

a Shantung constable to induce the

girl's mother to allow the matter to

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UNWISE YOUNG SOLOMON

only of publishing a State docu-

ment without the consent of the

Government, thereby committing a wards the French authorities. breach of professional ethics' to-

It is stated at the Quai d'Orsay. that there has been no official American demarche with regard to the case of Horan. Mr. Armour the A happy ending to an elopement United States charge d'affaires

be taken before the police, and after was indicated at Leeds when called at the Qual d'Orsay on the some while the parties arrived at Maurice Solomon, aged 26, of 8th inst., semi-officially to inquire the No. 2 Police-Station. The girl Teesdale-street, Hackney-road, Elinto the truth of the reports that was despatched at once from the and Hetty Simmons, 22, also of Horan had been arrested and im- Police Station to the Government, London, pleaded guilty to stealing prisoned. Civil Hospital.

guve

£10 88 and a quantity of clothing The Qual-d'Orsay officials replied Mr. G..W. R. Griggs also

from Mr. and Mrs, Abrahams, of that the reports were untrue and evidence. He said that he saw the Cowper-street, Leeds.

cxplained that Horan had commit- motor cycle topple over. There

It was stated that the couple met ted an unfriendly and unseemly kct: 10.30 am. was a bucket over the handle-bars. Mrs. Abrahms at Leeds railway towards the French Government in He next saw a girl run into the station on August 11, and, posing knowingly making use of its private

as man and wife, asked her if she property-Reuter. verandah. Witness thought that

could recommend them to the cycle must have been going very lodgings. Next day they called on slowly at the time of the accident..her and pleaded to be allowed to The girls mother alleged that a stay with her. As an act of charity her daughter stepped over the side she consented and made no charge. channel she was knocked down by a Later they absconded, Laking, with motor cycle, which did not sound its them the money, and clothing.

Mr. S. Walsh, defending, sald the

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SHOCKS IN MEXICO ALARM

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- Mexico City, Yesterday, An earthquake shock caused the After evidence was given by Solomon was employed by his deputies to hurry from the Cham- Traße Sergeant Baker that the father, a master tailor, and the girl, ber, which suspended sitting. The motor cycle was an "A.J.S." which was a saleswoman. Solomon's shocks were felt in nine states and was almost new, and the brakes father objected to the marriage, so damage was heavy, particularly in were in good working order, the they decided to run away to Lecce, the town of Oaxaca, the southern jury, without retiring, returned a where Solomon hoped to get work section of which was ruined. verdict of "Accidental Death," add-They found themselves stranded, Router's American Service. ing that no blame was attached to Solomon's father had now given Mr. Botelho.

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consent to the marriage and would of the ice-breakers "Krassin" and Moscow, YesterdayThe crews Traffic Inspector Alexander, hay-find work for his son. The couple Malyguin," who have arrived here ing announced that Mr. Botelho was were also prepared to make to from the Arctic, were officially wel willing to give a fairly good sum stitution to Mrs. Abrahams. O

diplomatic representatives were pre- sent. It was announced that awards will be given to each Individual for.

to the girl's mother by way of som-* The case was adjourned for two comed at the Opera House. All the pensation and as an ect of grace; months. the Coroner informed the mother that the fury had found that Mr. Botelho was not to blame, but that compensation would be pald

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